The bike's been my trusted friend for years, in Scotland, The North Downs, jungles of SE Asia (I moved for a while to Singapore) where it was nibbled by monkeys and my regular ride was past a "beware of the crocodiles" signed path...and now the New Forest.

Please forgive the lights - I enjoy night offroading best in the summer.

Yep, you've got a nice hardtail there. The old Marin's go on forever. Nice that your using the old Deore thumbies, they were the best BITD, in a really muddy race and the indexing went, you could crank them over to manual and grind your way through the gears!

Unless it's my mate's Marin Team, which snapped at the headtube/downtube section on one of the trails in the Queen Elizibeth Country Park, not the most severe of terrains.

_________________"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'WOW-What a Ride!'"

I thinkthat the problem was precisely becasue it was a top-end one...and they had shaved just a little bit too much thickness off. The weld probably caused a local thinning of the metal as it melted in the vicinity of the weld

That's why craft framebuilders don't weld.

It could probably be repaired by a framebuilder by fillet brazing. I doubt if it would cost that much either.

It's a bit late now, Marin replaced the frame (back in '96), it was only 8 months old.

The frame broke off about 20mm from the weld, roughly where the heat effected zone would be from the weld.

It was one of those funny moments, he turned right and carried on in to the bushes, got up, blamed the semi slick tyres for not having any grip then noticed that the frame was broken. He was always banging on about Aluminium frames being fragile and how steel was the only way to go, we didn't take the p*ss too much.

_________________"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'WOW-What a Ride!'"

Nice I've just rebuilt a mid 90's Pine mountain, had the frame vapour blasted and started from that, the only part that is original now (other than the frame) is the rear cassette lol! Still got ALL the original Deore DX parts though

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